I have an Intranet, and, my reports show a massive increase in Visitors, primirialy due to their browsers having a default start page of the Intranet.

So, what Im asking is, Im filtering out the homepage and login page from the Visitor count. By doing so, will the Visitor count still reflect acuratly those that had a session of more than just those two pages? See #'s below. Also, can this theory be applied to HITS for a time report as well?

NOTE: These numbers below for months of 3-5 are when the start page setting hadnt been implemented, so does that mean many are just logging in and closing the site? Thats why im curious as to if sessions are being counted appropriatly with the fitler in place.

So when user starts his Internet Explorer the following sequence
automatically occurs:
/default.htm
/login.htm

In fact if the user does not continue to visit the site all stats is mixed.

So the formulation of the task: avoid from time report users with
length of visit equals to 2 pages.
It means that in order to visit some pages of the site the user should
visit at least 2 pages (more than 2 pages).

For example:
/default.htm
/login.htm
/news.htm
/about.htm

If you add the filter:
href equals /login.htm
It will eliminate all the visits. Because /login.htm should present in
all visits.

In order to carefully solve the task we developed new parameter:
visit_length

So for you time report: Visitors by week (or day, month)
add new filter condition:
visit_length not_equals 2

This is only updated EXE file. You need to extract an executable file from
zip archive into folder where the program is installed. So you will
replace old executable file by this new one.

The next question: how to filter page hits?
In fact it's more difficult. In internal calculation routine if
parameter is requests (or hits, host) it simply counts matching lines
in log file without forming visitor paths (sequence of visited pages).
So for now visit_length will not work for page hits report. It only
works when parameter is visitor.
We will think how can we handle it. For now use Visitors by week
report.

Ok, getting closer. Except, from my logs emailed to you (a good repeatable section of those that I would like to filter), Im not sure if a path = "/" is being counted as a "visit_length" to be filtered?

Now, for the follow test log file, with a filter of 2, I still get all the visits being counted, with a filter of 1 none of the visits get counted instead of a single visit getting counted (one vist in the log was more than 2 pages), Im totally confused. I emailed this to you....

boxcarwilli wrote:Ok, getting closer. Except, from my logs emailed to you (a good repeatable section of those that I would like to filter), Im not sure if a path = "/" is being counted as a "visit_length" to be filtered?

You are right. In fact in new version of ALA we upgraded our IsPage
procedure (which worked fine before the upgrade) and now it's an issue that / is not counted as web page.
We are correcting it now and doing further tests on your log file.